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Thrill-seeking men lose out to women in degree results

THE final bastion of male academic supremacy has been breached: women are now twice as likely as men to get a good degree, a new study claims.

Although girls do better at GCSE and A-level, it was thought that the gap between the sexes narrowed at university. But the report has turned this assumption on its head by comparing, for the first time, male and female students who entered higher education with the same A-level grades.

The survey of more than 200 students at Brunel University found 35% of men were awarded a first or upper second, compared with 65% of women with identical grades at A-level.

The report went on to suggest this was because women are more diligent. Women, it claims, are more likely to turn up to lectures, participate fully in tutorials and stay at home to work.